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...Flag limousine. My feet propped up on the jump seat?just as Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's third wife, liked to sit on her own tours of the capital?I sip champagne, nibble caviar and nod as my 20-year-old tour guide, Maggie, recounts tales of China's glorious communist past. As we pass Tiananmen Square and its floodlit portrait of Chairman Mao, I've suddenly had enough. Unable to take more of Maggie's garbled history, I interrupt to ask: "Don't you find it strange to be riding in the car of the most reviled woman...
...built of shoe boxes - the show was designed by his niece - are original sketches and magazine pages featuring his shoes, clothes by some of the designers with whom he has worked, a video clip of the mugging scene in Sex and the City and shoes - lots and lots of glorious shoes. The details in a pair of Manolo Blahnik shoes can vary greatly: the elegant ones - plenty of satin stilettos for brides-to-be; the funky ones - his take on the Timberland boot, the Tims (picture a suede work boot with a four-inch heel; now picture it on Jennifer...
...libel suit for some $83,000 was filed in Tokyo against Levine's Japanese publisher, claiming that the book is a farrago of lies designed to discredit Sugihara and his memory. Levine calls the accusation preposterous, telling TIME that his real intention was to "make well-known the glorious meaning of Sugihara." A new round of hearings is set to begin this month...
Krish Subrahmanian has a cult following. Everyone seems to know Krish, and everyone has glorious praise for him. They gush he is “one of the nicest and most genuine people,” and even “one of the best people on the planet Earth.” Subrahmanian’s self-effacing reaction? “I think there’s very little that’s interesting about me,” he says...
While the French don't revere Napoleon as divine, they do consider him among the nation's most glorious sons. In October, producer Robert Hossein opened his Broadway-like stage extravaganza, C'était Bonaparte ("Thus Was Bonaparte") amid considerable media attention and box-office jostling. Days later, French TV aired the €40-million Napoléon mini-series, pulling in around 7 million nightly viewers during its four-episode run, with a cast that included Gerard Dépardieu, Isabella Rossellini and John Malkovich. Next February, popular French actor Antoine de Caunes will make his directing debut with...